The Doors of Perception Made Psychodetic Drugs Intellectually Respectable

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It certainly seems like a doors of perception helped legitimize psychidalics. We have this tweedy, straight laced, british intellectual that's taken this scientific approach to this this drug andand as you're describing it,. It's interesting because it, you knowe was very serious, but it did have this therapeutic structure to it. And so it made the whole thing look respectable, a where some people might want, wanted to be un unrespectable. Thas part of the fun.

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, five collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.

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